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Nearly 200 New Oklahoma Laws Take Effect This Week
Oklahoma currently has the nation's highest incarceration rate for women and the third highest rate overall. The state's prison population has grown from 22600 in 2000 to nearly 26000 now and the budget from $366 million to $483 million last year.
Updated: 11/01/2011 10:03A
District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro wants to have it both ways: Jarvis DeBerry
Justice must prevail, even if all our judges are removed and their absence creates unprecedented turmoil in a historically dysfunctional criminal justice system. Funny, but when it was time for John Thompson, a man wrongfully convicted of murder,
Updated: 11/01/2011 09:41A
Brighton mum calls for stronger laws on porn
Now Mrs Longhurst, 80, has questioned whether the law, part of the 2008 Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill, is strong enough. Mrs Longhurst, supported by The Argus, fought for a change in the law after learning Coutts watched horrifying pornographic
Updated: 11/01/2011 09:15A
Single-Sports Betting In Canada - Amendments Redux
At the current time, we are allowed to bet in Canada legally in several areas, but in particular on sports activities, and only if it is three or more events. That is the legality. It is strange how that came about. I do not fully understand it.
Updated: 11/01/2011 09:08A
A crime figures ruse that's good news for police and the criminals
A 70-year-old Cheshire pensioner, who had never been in trouble with the law before, was arrested for criminal damage after cutting back a neighbour's conifers too vigorously. The reason was that the last government had set police a target for
Updated: 11/01/2011 09:03A
DOJ Challenges South Carolina's Unconstitutional Anti-Immigrant Law
Although States may exercise their police power in a manner that has an incidental or indirect effect on aliens, a State may not establish its own immigration policy or enforce state laws in a manner that interferes with federal immigration laws.
Updated: 11/01/2011 09:03A
Breuer Voices Regret over Gun Sting
According to Perez, the head of the Justice Department's criminal division learned last year that ATF agents let suspected gun traffickers buy weapons and send them to Mexico, in a bid to track the guns and catch bigger fish.
Updated: 11/01/2011 08:54A
International Organized Crime Ring Dismantled
"The positive results of this investigation show how partnership between law enforcement agencies, both domestic and international, can work to advance public safety." "The RCMP and CBSA work closely together and with other law enforcement agencies to
Updated: 11/01/2011 08:39A
Parliament to consider decriminalization of economic crimes on November 4
He said the majority and the opposition have succeeded in reaching consensus regarding a draft law on humanization of the Criminal Code. MPs agreed to consider this issue on November 4 after an hour of questions to the Government, Volodymyr Lytvyn said
Updated: 11/01/2011 08:18A
Criminal Justice System Is Broke - Paul Erokoro (SAN) [interview]
It isn't the immunity clause that is making governors corrupt or making them not to be prosecuted; it is a total failure of the criminal justice system. If you say governors are not being prosecuted because they have immunity, what about other public
Updated: 11/01/2011 08:14A
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